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MERALCO vs Secretary of Labor and MEWA

MANILA ELECTRIC COMPANY, petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE SECRETARY OF LABOR LEONARDO QUISUMBING AND MERALCO EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS ASSOCIATION (MEWA), respondents.

G.R. No. 127598 | 1999-01-27

D E C I S I O N


MARTINEZ, J.:

In this petition for certiorari, the Manila Electric Company (MERALCO) seeks to annul the orders of the Secretary of labor dated August 19, 1996 and December 28, 1996, wherein the Secretary required MERALCO and its rank and file union- the Meralco Workers Association (MEWA) to execute a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) for the remainder of the parties' 1992-1997 CBA cycle, and to incorporate in this new CBA the Secretary's dispositions on the disputed economic and non-economic issues.

MEWA is the duly recognized labor organization of the rank-and-file employees of MERALCO.

On September 7, 1995, MEWA...